thedogspollocks

Kooki 1 – Greenfinch 0

thedogspollocks — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:59:34 +0000

I saw this bird in the garden earlier, I think he was suicidal anyway. I doubt Kooki would have caught it otherwise.

Nature Photos

thedogspollocks — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:51:00 +0000

Pictures of animals, plants and trees. Mostly taken in the summer of 2009 but some older ones. There’s even a photo here where Brandon doesn’t look like a totally mangled, drunk, tramp cat.

Landscape Photos

thedogspollocks — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:38:20 +0000

Some photos of the local landscape. Mostly sunsets, some clouds.

Avatar

thedogspollocks — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:58:34 +0000

Some representations of myself in digital worlds…

Air

thedogspollocks — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:00:06 +0000

That was lovely. Just a pleasure.

DJ Shadow

thedogspollocks — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:00:35 +0000

Quite the audio/visual experience.. also very impressive routing.

Pearl Jam

thedogspollocks — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:34:02 +0000

I’m am very much a fair weather Pearl Jam fan. Keep playing the hits and anthems and il be happy. Anything else they played that wasn’t on the Best Of or Ten was purdy lost on me. So Luckily they stuck to the script the moments of apathy were kept to a minimum.

Best song of the night – Black.. or maybe Happy Birthday… except.. you know.. i cant really ‘hear’ that song anymore.

Some New Photos

thedogspollocks — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:48:36 +0000

Lots of the Cat and birds as per usual.

Rage Against the Machine

thedogspollocks — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:00:50 +0000

Great gig. What a fantastic atmosphere and tight performance. I had apprehensions that Finsbury Park would be full of freeloading muppets who hadn’t even bought the single.. ahem.. that sent Rage to the summit of the charts last Christmas day.

First, i was keen to seen Gogol Bordello after having watched Everything is Illuminated last year. They were ok and i think they probably won some new fans but i don’t really believe that this was the time or place for them to really impress upon the crowd.

Rage came on and the place was just full of energy. They went though a setlist that offered few surprises, but for a cover of White Riot, which is just what we all wanted, i felt. Bombtrack, Bulls on Parade, Sleep now in the fire, Township.. love it.

Everybody there really must have known how the encore was going to be played out, there was the build up on the big screens, a power point presentation of the time line of events last December as the annual x-factor winner would march towards the top of the charts, only we all knew it wouldn’t end that way this time.

insert bass line and cowbell intro here.

Ps. Multiple location fields confuse me.

The Pixies

thedogspollocks — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:00:32 +0000

A little bit of background to this gig first.. received an email from the band mail-list announcing this gig with the detail of how to get tickets and the a prompt to share it with anyone i cared to. After purchasing tickets in a boyish frenzy of excitement i later received an email from the band asking what i would like to hear at said gig. Replied with my choice and thought nothing more of it.

Anyway.. interesting venue, and wonderful smell of hot dogs on entrance, and carpet, has the feel of an old bingo hall. The pixies come on after some very forgettable support and all is well.

Kim Deal is the voice of the band between songs and she tells us that they have gone though the emails and have had to learn a few of the ‘weirder ones’. Social media has taken a step in a direction i, on this occasion, approve of. Having seen the pixies play their Doolittle set last year it was great to hear them meander through a set-list that pulled from all corners of there back catalog.

Of course, relating to earlier email exchanges, the band played my song, for me, for nobody else but me, for my pleasure, and i felt la laa loved.